He said that at the grocer there were less than half a dozen of each of the different ‘scented’ bleaches mostly generic, and he had to buy the two-pk box, which was the last Chlorox box. And for some reason the white breads were gone - but still the artisan and like sourdough and such.
He went to Costco and noticed an older Asian couple were wearing masks no gloves and a man/woman white couple wearing masks no gloves. Hipanic wearing a mask. Older white woman wearing gloves and a mask but her daughter was not wearing either. About 4 or 5 others wearing masks, including two older buying 10-12 cases of water but like not cases of candybars or something that would indicate they were buying for a store or something. The bleach 3-pk box was down to the last two layers on the pallet. He didn't check other cleaning supplies. Costco hasn't had masks for about 3 weeks. The nitrile and latex (more latex) gloves were in good supply but the last time he looked, last week, they were out of large/exlarge.
Mr. BP thought, did I miss mask day or what? That when he walked into Costco it just didn't seem 'normal'. Nothing really noticeable but in the air, so to speak. So he picked up another three pack of bleach, and with the twopack from Stater, we now have 5 gals. Rather unintentionally but nice to have since it's also time to dose the rainbarrels and disinfect the barn.
I can't say if the older Asian couple were wearing masks because of fear, or because they might think it's a preemptive move so others don't look cross-eyed at them - see we are trying to protect everyone, kind of thing.
It's anecdotal, but at least some in this leaning conservative town seem to be worried. I was told by a friend to watch what the Asians do and copy them - they are in contact with those back home and they know what is going on within their own communities and who is where - that's how CCP works).
went and refilled my prescriptions today....
Two or three weeks ago I was loaded up with all of that sort of stuff. Clorox, gloves, rubbing alchol, wipes, etc. As I was leaving a couple of guys were near the exit trying to sell appliances. I heard them say “There goes another one!”
I didn’t see them the following day when I went back for TP and paper towels, canned food, beans, rice and more of the other stuff.
An Amazon shipment of oil filters, light bulbs and other stuff is 4 days late now. So I had to go down to the local auto shop. They were out of the filter that I wanted (found another one) and I took the last two-pack of bulbs that I wanted. The lightbulb section was very bare. Not sure if that means anything - they might just have a lousy stocking system.